This volume brings together nineteen studies Petr Pokorny on Jesus and the beginnings of Christology. In the individual essays he deals with the problem of the relationship of the prehistoric and early Christian Christology (n) to the Jesus of history, with the theological justification of Jesus research and its relation to systematic theology and philosophy as well as the methodology of critical Jesus research. Several contributions concerning specific issues such as the relationship of Jesus of Nazareth to John the Baptist, Paul and Jesus and the language of the oldest traditions about Jesus. In addition, the author examines the Sermon on the Mount and the internal structure of their ethics, the Passion or the presentation of the role of Jesus in the Gospels and in non-Christian testimonies.